TY - JOUR
T1 - Measures to Combat School Dropout in France: Macro and Micro Visions
AU - Desideri, Agnese
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This book review focus on the macro and micro-level reasons
of the dropout phenomenon (for instance, at the macro level
transformations of the job market, new school regulation system, etc. and,
at the micro level, dynamics and interactions within the classroom, etc.).
Two books published in 2014 are useful to investigate the topic from both
points of view. The first book, edited by Thierry Berthet and Joël Zaffran The school
dropout: issues, actors and policies to contrast descolarization, offers a
panorama of current French research. It also describes different models of
analysis and field experimentation, as well as individual trajectories and
some of the most important policy measures adopted in France to contrast
the dropout. The second book is titled Addressing early school leaving. Field
experiences, edited by Eric Flavier (from LISEC - Laboratoire
Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l'Education et de la Communication, at
Université de la Lorraine) and, Sylvie Moussay (from Laboratory ACTé -
Activité, Connaissance, Transmission, éducation, at University Blaise
Pascal in Clermont Ferrand), tries to describe school dropout addressing
not only educational authorities, teachers, and policy makers, but also
students and families, providing them with a toolkit for better
understanding and improving educational practice as well. Both books
adopt a sociological approach and agree on considering school dropout as
a multifactorial and long-term process. In this book review we are going to describe
commonalities of the two books and some points of weakness.
AB - This book review focus on the macro and micro-level reasons
of the dropout phenomenon (for instance, at the macro level
transformations of the job market, new school regulation system, etc. and,
at the micro level, dynamics and interactions within the classroom, etc.).
Two books published in 2014 are useful to investigate the topic from both
points of view. The first book, edited by Thierry Berthet and Joël Zaffran The school
dropout: issues, actors and policies to contrast descolarization, offers a
panorama of current French research. It also describes different models of
analysis and field experimentation, as well as individual trajectories and
some of the most important policy measures adopted in France to contrast
the dropout. The second book is titled Addressing early school leaving. Field
experiences, edited by Eric Flavier (from LISEC - Laboratoire
Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l'Education et de la Communication, at
Université de la Lorraine) and, Sylvie Moussay (from Laboratory ACTé -
Activité, Connaissance, Transmission, éducation, at University Blaise
Pascal in Clermont Ferrand), tries to describe school dropout addressing
not only educational authorities, teachers, and policy makers, but also
students and families, providing them with a toolkit for better
understanding and improving educational practice as well. Both books
adopt a sociological approach and agree on considering school dropout as
a multifactorial and long-term process. In this book review we are going to describe
commonalities of the two books and some points of weakness.
KW - school dropout in France
KW - school dropout in France
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/121855
UR - http://ijse.padovauniversitypress.it/system/files/papers/2016_3_14.pdf
U2 - 10.14658/pupj-ijse-2016-3-14
DO - 10.14658/pupj-ijse-2016-3-14
M3 - Book/Film/Article review
VL - 2016
SP - 288
EP - 296
JO - Italian Journal of Sociology of Education
JF - Italian Journal of Sociology of Education
SN - 2035-4983
ER -